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No need to gap the rails, but you may want to check a couple of things, as it may be a faulty Switch. <br /> <br />When your loco stops, touch a screwdriver to the place where the the moveable switch rail contacts the fixed rail. does the loco move? If so you have a dirty contact when the switch is thrown. Clean it with a carbon fibre stick or some Emery paper . <br /> <br />Alternatively, the wire connecting the moving switch rail and the fixed exit rail(look underneath the Peco turnout) could have come loose either through a bad solder joint or if the switch has been glued down before. The easiest cure for this is to solder some 7-strand wire between the exit rail and the switch rail, preferably using the link wire that remains fixed at on end under the switch. <br /> <br />Hope this helps <br /> <br />Jon
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